Visa Stock Price, News & Analysis (NYSE:V)

17 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Visa in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings and 14 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" V shares.
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17 brokers have issued 12 month price targets for Visa's stock. Their V share price targets range from $243.00 to $300.00. On average, they anticipate the company's share price to reach $275.67 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 7.4% from the stock's current price.
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Visa's stock was trading at $207.76 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, V stock has increased by 23.5% and is now trading at $256.68.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 25th 2024.
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Visa Inc. (NYSE:V) issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, October, 24th. The credit-card processor reported $2.33 EPS for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $2.23 by $0.10. The credit-card processor earned $8.61 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $8.56 billion. Visa had a net margin of 52.90% and a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 50.13%. Visa's revenue was up 10.6% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $1.93 EPS.
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Visa declared a quarterly dividend on Tuesday, October 24th. Investors of record on Thursday, November 9th will be paid a dividend of $0.52 per share on Friday, December 1st. This represents a $2.08 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 0.81%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, November 8th. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.45.
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Visa (NYSE:V) pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 0.82%. The company has been increasing its dividend for 16 consecutive years, indicating the company has a strong committment to maintain and grow its dividend. The dividend payout ratio is 25.09%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, V will have a dividend payout ratio of 18.65% next year. This indicates that the company will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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ETFs with the largest weight of Visa (NYSE:V) stock in their portfolio include iShares U.S. Financial Services ETF (IYG), Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLF), iShares U.S. Industrials ETF (IYJ), Roundhill S&P Dividend Monarchs ETF (KNGS), Fidelity MSCI Financials Index ETF (FNCL), Fidelity Disruptive Finance ETF (FDFF), Vanguard Financials ETF (VFH) and ETFMG Prime Mobile Payments ETF (IPAY).

Visa shares split on the morning of Thursday, March 19th 2015. The 4-1 split was announced on Thursday, January 29th 2015. The newly created shares were payable to shareholders after the market closes on Wednesday, March 18th 2015. An investor that had 100 shares of stock prior to the split would have 400 shares after the split.

Visa declared that its board has approved a share repurchase plan on Tuesday, October 25th 2022, which allows the company to repurchase $12,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to repurchase up to 3.1% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are often an indication that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

738 employees have rated Visa Chief Executive Officer Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. on Glassdoor.com. Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. has an approval rating of 94% among the company's employees. This puts Alfred F. Kelly, Jr. in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Visa investors own include Mastercard (MA), NVIDIA (NVDA), Walt Disney (DIS), Alibaba Group (BABA), Netflix (NFLX), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), PayPal (PYPL), Home Depot (HD), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) and Salesforce (CRM).

Visa's stock is owned by a number of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include FMR LLC (2.70%), Morgan Stanley (2.68%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (1.14%), Royal Bank of Canada (1.01%), Northern Trust Corp (0.92%) and Ameriprise Financial Inc. (0.76%). Insiders that own company stock include Alfred F Kelly Jr, James H Hoffmeister, James H Hoffmeister, Julie B Rottenberg, Lloyd Carney, Rajat Taneja, Robert W Matschullat, Robert W Matschullat, Ryan Mcinerney, Tullier Kelly Mahon and Vasant M Prabhu.
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